Onetime go-between for major oil companies and state-owned oil fields in the Gulf settled in Britain in 1980 after fleeing the late Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Started a lawsuit in early 2007 against France's Elf, accusing its former directors of fraud and of entangling his name in their criminal acts. Daughter Luma one of 9 pharma execs facing charges of conspiracy to defraud Britain's National Health Service out of many millions of pounds by inflating the price of some of Britain's most commonly prescribed medicines. Pet charitable cause: gives money to grassroots organizations that repatriate young boys forced to race camels outside Pakistan.